(n.) The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.
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Gravestone
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(n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
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(1) Yet the gravestone of this debate has Libya marked on it.
(2) What more proof could I show my children of their belonging, their rootedness here than their family name on a gravestone?
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Another participant in the show is Brian Andrew Whiteley with The Legacy Stone, also known as the Trump gravestone that mysteriously appeared one day in March in Central Park .
(4) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(5) He was shocked to the core when Savile's family announced that they would remove the disgraced DJ's gravestone in Scarborough "out of respect for public opinion".
(6) Teach-ins were held to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership and sad clowns performed in a theater performance surrounded by gravestones for “justice”, “democracy” and “truth”.
(7) Jail Corbett and send Barker's gravestone to landfill.
(8) Evidences of this exceptional event are notations in the birth and death registers of the town parish church in Lommatzsch, a letter reporting on the "unusual event" to the elector Johann Georg III (1600-1691) and the so-called five-children gravestone.
(9) But there are no gravestones, there are no markers.
(10) Fay says it has been very hard for her and her siblings to not have a focus for their grief and "perhaps the drawings are the gravestones, where I can lay the flowers".
(11) Meanwhile, 15 gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem were vandalised, with "death to Arabs" painted across them in what was thought to be a "price tag" attack by Jewish extremists.
(12) Coming unexpectedly across a work by Gill - a carved font in a rarely opened church, a gravestone in a rural cemetery, moss creeping in between the precision-cut Gill letters - is an odd and hauntingly intense experience.
(13) Asked in 1999 what she would like to see written on her gravestone, Taylor replied: "Here lies Elizabeth.
(14) From her bedroom window, she can see the gravestone of her baby daughter, who died soon after being after being born, not long after they moved in.
(15) Every major political party is now complicit in fees and privatisation in universities, and if there was only one impact of the growth of the student movement in the past few years, it has been that your betrayal of education and your fire sale of public services will be written on your political gravestone in 2015.
(16) Indeed, the last Labour election effort featured an unlikely puppet character called Ed, who wrote his thoughts in big letters on a semi-portable gravestone .
(17) He had already published a book about churchyard gravestones, A Fine and Private Place (with Joan Bakewell, 1977), and an entertaining account of his quest for Diaghilev, Speaking of Diaghilev (1997), based on the earlier documentary.
(18) But Ball insisted the pair had laughed it off, saying: “He [Cook] has always said he wants his gravestone to read: ‘Norman was a very patient man.’ And that sums it up really.” After the picture emerged, she said they had a “good understanding of each other” and said the reasons they met and fell in love initially were still there.
(19) We had paparazzi clambering over gravestones while we were filming the funeral.
(20) Will bungling or beastly be chiselled first on this government's gravestone?